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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69832	Culpeper's directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children.	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1651 (1651)	Wing C7488; Wing C7497; ESTC R171645	150,923	300

the womb If you cannot make him sleep by singing nor rocking no● the like it is a disease Are dive●s in m●n and children in these it is from milk corrupt in the stomach from which sharp humors arise and disturbe the animal Spirits and infect them and if there be sad fancies frights ●ollow of which before If it cries alwaies and cannot by any art be made to sleep it is a sign of a disea●e of watching which is dangerous because children use to sleep much And hence come Cata●rhs Convulsions Driness and Feavers The bad milk mus● be amended and the cor●upt meat prevented If it be from a feaver or pain ●emove them Galen adviseth you of●en to change the bed and place Sleeping Medicines are not safe but hurt but are rather to be given the Nurse moderately as sweet Almonds Lettice Poppy seeds Wash the feet with Decoction of Dill tops Chamomil flowers Sage O●iers Vi●e leaves Poppy heads Cool not the head too much nor use Narcoticks These are sa●e Oyl of Dill to the temples Oyl of Roses with Oyl of Nutmegs with Poppy seed Breast-milk Rose or Nightshade water with Saffron In great driness of the brain let the cove●ing of the cradeles head ●e wet Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion IT is either by consent from parts below when the milk corrupts in the stomach or from an ill quality in it from the Nurses bad diet or from worms in the guts or from vapors from bad humors that twitch the membranes of the brain as in the Meazles and ●mall Pox. It is somtimes from the brain first as when the humors are bred in the brain that cause it either from the parents or from distemper or bad diet It may come from toothach also when the brain consents and from a sudden fright It is manifest You shall know by the signs of the diseases whether it comes from bad milk worms or teeth If from a fright the people wil tell you If these all are absent it is certain that the brain is first affected It is a great disease and kills for the most part young children But when in older and it comes at a distance it vanisheth by age If it come with Pox or Meazles it ceaseth when they come forth if Nature be strong enough Give this Pouder to prevent it to a child as soon a● it is born Take male Piony roots gathered in the decrease of the Moon a scruple Magistery of Coral half a scruple with Leaf-gold make a Pouder Or Take Piony roots a dram Piony seeds Mis●eto of the O●k E●kes hoof Mans skull Amber each a scruple Musk two grains make a Pouder The Florentines burn behind in the head to dry the brain and Celsus saith it is the last Remedy Aegineta saith that children cannot endure such cruelty for the pain and watching would kill them See Sylvaticu● The best part of the cure is in the Nurses diet● which must not be disordered If it be from co●rupt milk provoke vomit thus hold down the tongue and put a quill dipt in sweet Almonds down the throat If it come from worms give things that kill worms with Piony roots and the like If there be a feaver respect that also Give Coral Smaradgs and Elkes hoof In the ●it give Epileptick water as Lavender-water and rub with the Oyl of Amber or hang a Piony root Elkes hoof or Smaragd about the ne●k Of a Convulsion This is when the brain labo●s to cast out what troubles it The matter is in the marrow of the ●ack and fountain of the nerves It is a ●●●bborn disease and often kills In the ●it wash the body especially the backbone with decoction of Althaea Lilly roots Piony Chamomil flowers And anoint with Mans and Goose grease Oyl of Worms Orris Lillies Foxes Turpentine Mastich Storax calamite The Sun flower is good boyled in water for to wash the Child Chap. 11. Of Strabismus or Squint-eyes THis is when they lie in the cradle with their head from the light or on one side and they still look towards the light which causeth distortion of the eyes or it may come from the Epilepsie or by birth If by birth it is not curable nor if it come from an Epilepsie If it come from custom and be new it is curable You must put a candle on the contrary side or a picture so long till the eyes come to be right Chap. 12. Of pain in the Ears Inflammation Moisture Ulcers and Worms OF these in the first Book But here we shal speak of in●ants● the brain in them is very moist and hath many excrements which Nature cannot send out at its proper p●ssages these get often to the ears and cause pain and flux of blood with inflammation and matter with ●ain In children pain and inflammation are hard to be k●own they cannot relate it only it is k●own by constant crying and feeling their ears and will not let others touch them sometimes the parts about the ears are red It is dangerous because it brings watching and Epilepsie the moisture breeds worms there and fouls the spungy bones and at length deafness incu●able Presently allay the pain but children must not have strong remedies Only use warm milk about the ears Oyl of Violets or the Decoction of Poppy tops To take away moisture use Honey of Roses and Aqua Mellis to be dropt into the ears Or Take Virgins Honey half an ounce red Wine two ounces Allum Saffron Salt-peter each a dram mix them at the fire Or drop in Hemp seed Oyl with a little Wine Chap. 13. Of the Thrush Bladders in the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils THese are from bad milk or from ●oul humors in the stomach for the mouth is tender and connot endure the sharp milk nor the vapors from the stomach because the coat is the same as in Lib. 2. Part. 1. Cap. 18. The bladders in the gums are thus cured Take Lentils busked pouder them lay it upon the gum● Or Take Milium in flour half an ounce with O●l of Ros●s make a Linimem The inflammation of the Tonsils is more from eleven to thirteen for then the parts a●e harder and hold the humors longer and they cannot sweat out For Cure keep the belly 〈◊〉 b● 〈◊〉 the like use Repellers at first then Resolvers with Repellers and at last Resolvers alone but not too hot in age Gargles are best in infants anoint with Honey of Roses Mirtles Pomegranates Diamoron inwardly Outwardly use Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil St. Johns-wort c. Chap. 14. Of Breeding of Teeth THis is a necessary evil in all children and very great by reason of the variety of symptoms joyned with it It is about the seventh month first the fore-teeth then the eye-teeth and last of all the grinders● First they feel an itching in their gums then they are pierced as with a needle and pricked by